piam Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 i current have vista and tiger both installed vista runs fine, but when i installed tiger the other day it run ok no problems but i tried to put on leopard but had to many problems loosing data all the time so i gave up with that so reforamted whole hard drive put vista back on then partitioned for tiger all installed ok then i got a HFS+ error fixed that ok by doing this. fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 Specifies the disc that you have Vista and OS X installed to The specified location rdisk0 may of course be different if Vista or OS X was installed on a different drive, e.g. rdisk1, rdisk2 flag 2 Marks OS X as the active partition (or if you installed OS X 1st and Vista 2nd, change the flag to 1) update Update machine code in loaded MBR write Write loaded MBR to disk quit This will quit fdisk and take you back to the normal single user prompt reboot Your machine will restart and boot OS X as normal but now all i get is a blue screen and it just stays at that have i done something wrong how can i fix it thanx. spec: toshiba a100-027 1024 ram Mobile Intel® 945GM Express Chipset Controller 0 Atheros AR5006EG Wireless Network Adapter Genuine Intel ® CPU T2060 "1.60 ghz x2 High Definition Audio Device Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97600-blue-screen-s/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
piam Posted April 5, 2008 Author Share Posted April 5, 2008 any please? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97600-blue-screen-s/#findComment-697540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwaaku Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Piam I had a similar experience quite recently. It sounds like fixing it might not be the best solution, you need a different strategy & maybe a little more knowledge. Repartitioning, writing code to the MBR & using the darwin command line are all potentially disasterous for you system if you make even a small mistake. Last time I wrote to the MBR using fdisk in darwin (command line) I had to repartition & reinstall everything as well. You dont say much about yourself but I am guessing that you are not used to performing such major surgery on your computer. You ar ebarking up the wrong tree with this set active partition thing. multi-os bootloaders, eg grub, refit, free BSD will do this automatically for you everytime you boot. You can also use any good partitioning program to do it IF i am guessing right right, I would recommend 1) avoid the command line until you are confident with it -theres almost always a ready made package you can use instead. 2) work out a backup strategy,then you can back up every install as soon as you make it if need be (I usually back up the whole disk when I finish installing a multi-boot hard disk). that way you dont have to be afraid that screwing up will mean starting from scratch again. I restored the whole disk from a usb drive in 10 minutes recently using ghost2003. 3) avoid writing to the MBR or altering the size & layout of the partitions on the drive (also stored in the MBR) as much as possible. 4)learn some unix. The command line in os x is darwin, a form of unix. Unix & linux are very similar. A very good way to learn is to download one of the Ubuntu linux live cd's -they are all free & very user freindly. You dont even need to install it (tho its better if u do) but can run it from CD without ever having to write to your hard drive. All the of major disaster recovery, partitioning, backup & analysis programs i use this system (called a live CD ie not installed) Anyway, dont want to lecture you -heres the most practical advice I can give you based on what you said. I would give up on the current install & start afresh. I know that isnt what you want but its probably best. I got the same advice recently & my computer died the following day. I would backup what I could from the disk, you can use a live cd to do this as your os isnt working. Knoppix is the best for this. Wipe the drive completely, zero it out if you can. then start again but dont dont write to the MBR again (ie using fdisk at the command line). use a ready made partitioner to do it for you I use to partition: mostly GParted live cd, also cfdisk in linux, diskpart in windows if I really have to to backup & restore: ghost2003 boot cd (or ghost11), dd in linux. to learn linux & generally do everything: Kubuntu (it rocks) When I am lazy or want to watch a video: XP dont give up, it gets easier. you just have a lot to learn at first. working out you backup strategy is probably the most important thing. ...It will set you free Best of luck KwaaK Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/97600-blue-screen-s/#findComment-700435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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